Ha’aretz ‘Lost in Translation’ Corrected

Ha’aretz today corrected the latest case of “Ha’aretz, Lost in Translation,” a phenomenon which we have tracked on our Snapshots blog and Web site. As noted on Snapshots yesterday, Ha’aretz‘s English translators gave an entirely new meaning to a phrase in an Op-Ed by settlements advocate Karni Eldad. Yesterday Eldad referred in Hebrew to “the agricultural period, during which settlers held onto the land, cleared stones, planted and sowed. . . ” (emphasis added.) Ha’aretz‘s translators translated the phrase that settlers “cleared stones,” (“seeklu”) into settlers “expelled” (“seelku”), an incendiary charge which had no connection to what the writer actually wrote.